I read WWZ while on holiday in Japan in 2007 and after finishing was waiting to hear they would make it into a film, since then I've heard various rumors about the state of the project. While I think the prospect of a movie would still be great, the idea of a high budget HBO mini series like Band of Brothers was long rumoured and I thought that would be the best way to go, as it would allow for many different stories to take place - one per episode.

Easy way to introduce a central character.....the guy who puts the book together. He goes around the world and talks to other people, it flashes back to their experiences. As the film follows the guy you see a lot of stuff about what the new world is like, and you add in some backstory or element of the plot to tie in the guy. If I can come up with that in a few seconds then I'm sure someone making the film could do better...

HappyHaunt wrote:
Easy way to introduce a central character.....the guy who puts the book together. He goes around the world and talks to other people, it flashes back to their experiences. As the film follows the guy you see a lot of stuff about what the new world is like, and you add in some backstory or element of the plot to tie in the guy. If I can come up with that in a few seconds then I'm sure someone making the film could do better...

Well there is a solid screenplay out there, with the writer being hired by the UN, you see the "new world" as kind of like Children of Men, bleak but familiar. Having to give blood as you travel through borders (and a full strip search).

All the storys are told in flashback, but the writer is just a narrator, the plot never touches him as he is there to be your eyes and ears. The ending written is very much like the ending of the BSG TV series:

with the closing comments of the people interviewd suggesting this could all happen again once our childeren forget the lessons we learned etc... I could even imagine All Along the Watchtower playing over the montage

I'll be surprised if Walking Dead gets past the second season to be honest, in the first season it was already getting "tired" and showing massive plot holes;

*Inconsistent zombies coming back - outside the CDC building loads of the army guys are dead, you have to assume killed by zombies, yet they stay dead? Are we supposed to assume these guys headshot themselves as they die? The story is that the scent of humans triggers them, so by rights the group should stand no chance of getting in the building!

*The dead guy in the tank? He crawls in, is not so hurt that he locks down the tank hatch, then rather than moving the damn thing just sits there and dies?

*The CDC building is - according to the crazy scientist - mega proofed against terrorist attack. Yet a grenade shatters the window pretty easy and why have glass armored windows when you have massive steel shutters?

Ultimately, it is missing what any good tv series needs to have; hope that the story will have a conclusion. Walking Dead only ends when they are all dead. There is no hope of coming back from what has happened.

World War Z is different and thats why it CAN work as a series with a clear arc, or at worst a film. I don't see how a film can convey the span of time, but I guess it's possible and will have to focus on the USA aspect the most to work.

Time will tell, but I think we will see some kind of media based on it, eventually.

To be honest those aren't really very bad plot holes, I could name another very popular series that lasted years and had 10x as many plot holes in one episode. I thought the series was excellent but I suppose that's for a different thread.

Well I would be surprised if it gets made at this point. Chasing more money and a PG13 rating means the studio are all up in its shit to make money, which could lead to the director walking (usually does) and saving face if it flops.

DOTD remake did pretty well but it was cheap to make, this has many large set pieces that I doubt you could do on the cheap.